"Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion."

-- Duke Ellington

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“Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.”
“His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.”
“I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.”
“Thereâ€™s always tomorrow.â€ â€œExactly,â€ she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldnâ€™t starve to death, she decided. Maybe sheâ€™d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.”
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

Source : "Essays of Three Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.
“Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales; But swell'd into a gust--who then, alas! With all his canvas set, and inexpert, And therefore, heedless, can withstand thy power?”
“This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.”
“Honesty is the cornerstone of character.”

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